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L. LEGUMINOS^. (J. G. Baker.) 



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erris. 



4-6 in. long, usually twice as long as broad, obtuse or pointed. Racemes \-\ ft. long, 

 obtuse, very'lax, with nodes copiously produced into branchlets, the axis and pedicels 

 densely clothed with brown pubescence ; pedicels ^~\ in. Ca?y:r very broad, denselysilky. 

 Corolla bright red, | in. long ; blade of standard round, |-| in. broad. Fod 2-3 in. by 

 J in., l-3-8eeded, thin, flat, with raised sutures, the upper one with a narrow distinct 

 wi^g. 



** Pod mof'e or less distinctly loinged doion both sutures (Dipteroderns, 

 Senth.) 



13. B. brevipes, ^ft/ter ; leaflets 5-7. glabrous obovate-oblong middle- 

 sized acute or subobtuse, racemes copiously panicled witb densely pubescent 

 branches, pedicels shorter than the calyx, corolla middle-sized, pod persistently 

 silky the lower wing obscure. Derris Ileyneana, var. brevipes, Benih in Journ, 

 Linn. Soc. iv. SujypL 110. 



CoNCAN, Stocks, NiLOHiRis, HoheuacJceT, Mysore, Cleghorn, 

 Branches and leaves on both surfaces glabrous. Leaflets Dcioderately firm, 2-3 in. long, 

 rounded at the base, obtuse or acute, the upper surface rather glossy, the veins below 

 little raised, the colour grey-green. Flowers crowded on the short branchlets of 

 copious ample axillary panicles, which are as long as the leaves, with ascending 

 branches, densely clothed with short brown pubescence. Calyx under ^ in., densely 

 silky. Corolla red, 3 times the length of the calyx ; standard obovate, not callose. 

 Pod broad, oblong, 1-seeded. 1^-1^ in. by 1 in., persistently brown-silky, with a narrow 



wing down the upper and a Tery obscure one down the lower suture. 



Var. coriacea, Benth. ; leaflets much thicker and very rigid glossy above, flowers 

 Dearly sessile. — Nilghiris, Hohenacker^ 1598. 



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V % 14. ». eualata, Bedd. Lc. PI. Lml. Or. 42, t. 186; leaflets 7-9 oblong 

 , middle-sized obtusely pointed, racemes copiously panicled with densely P|^P^^ 



cent branches, wdicels as long as the calyx, corolla middle-sized, pod glabrous, 



lower wing; as broad as upper. 



Wkstern Pknixsttla ; common in plains of South Canaraand Malabar, and at the 

 foot of the Coorg ghauts, Beddome, 



A gigantic creeper, with brown silky branchlets. Leaflets subcoriaceous, glabrous. 

 2-3 in, long, the veinlets little raised. Flowers in axillary racemes and an ample 

 panicle often 1 ft. long at the end of the branches ; pedicels fascicled, ^-^ i°- p^j, 

 ^^ in,, densely brown-silky. Corolla reddish, scarce ^ in. ; standard not callose. rod 

 ligulate, thin, 4-5 in. by 1-1 j in., l-S-seeded, each wing ^ in. broad. 



15. D. HeTrneana, Benth. PL Junqh, i. 252 ; leaflets 6 glabrous obo- 



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pod glabrous "w-itli a distinct wing dow^n the lower suture. Benth, in Jouin- 

 Linn. Soc. iv. SuppL 110; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. FL 77. Tongamia Hevneana, 

 Grah. in Wall Cat. 5916. 



Mysore, Heyne. Concan, Stocks, Law. 



A slender climber, glabrous in all its parts, except the branches of the pan 



icle. 



base, 



|-i in., thin, firm, rather glossy and veined, the wing of the upper suture ^ 

 broad, of the lower much narrower. Da- 



Var. paniculata ; leaflets 5-7 considerably smaller and especially ^^^^^^'M^ 

 nicies a foot lonfir verv lax with branches clothftd with fino sillcv T^ubescence, p^ 





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